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Updated: May 27, 2025

There was a pause, in which it would seem that Joaquin Santos had his ear at the empty keyhole. "I think he must be slipping," at last I heard him sigh. "It was not necessary to awaken him in this world. It is a peety." "One kick over the lock would do it," said Harris; "only the young swab'll hear." "Not perhaps while he is dancing attendance on the senhora. Was it not good to send him to her?

E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung - Dead Men Tell No Tales